Gretel was not idle; she ran screaming to her master, and cried, "You have invited a fine guest!"

格雷特没有闲着；她尖叫着跑向她的主人，大声喊道：“你邀请了一位好客人！”

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The little tailor, not idle, gathered two pocketsful of stones, and with these climbed up the tree.

小裁缝连忙拾了两口袋石头，带着它们爬上了树。

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Do not idle about like this and do something useful.

别再这样闲混下去了，做些有益的事吧！

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"In bureaucratic terms it's going well." "The committees are working as along as the chapters are opened technocrats on both sides work very well, but in political terms, its idle,it is not going anywhere."

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Milton's not making just any idle suggestion that he will write a poem that future generations will find themselves incapable of forgetting.

弥尔顿不是仅仅在做一个无用的提议,他将写首后人无法忘却的诗。

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The whisper is not, Frost specifies, a "dream of the gift of idle hours.

弗罗斯特指出这些低语不是“闲散时间的白日梦“

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While experiencing these hardships, we were not idle in our minds.

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In the meantime, the United Nations is not idle -- along with a runway, buildings and land, the U.N. inherited land mines under the snow.

CNN: Bosnian city gets ready for NATO peacekeepers

What is more, only tangible progress in these areas -- not idle political posturing -- will keep the two political parties from properly sharing public outrage for failing to take such steps.

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